Sanitary street cleaner



Aug. s 192s. 595,56

E. BOYANCE ET AL SANITARY STREET CLEANER Filed Feb. 10, 1925 lfatentefl Aug. 3, 192. v i l SPTES pril/'ENT ELSA BOYANCE AND MARIE PEKRY, 0F NEVI YORK, N. Y.

SANITARY STREET CLEANER.

Application filed. February l0,A 1925. Serial No.. 8,253'.

rlhis invention relates to street cleaners, gous t-ires 5, not only to cushion the wheels and while we shall hereinafter refer to our but also to provide resilient friction. surdevice as street cleanerl it is` to be clearly faces to drive ourV improved rotary brush understood that the device may be used for G, as will be hereinafter explained. many other purposes, and we do not limit On the outer faces of the sides of the body ourselves to any particular use. or receptacle 1,.'braclrets 7 are secured and An object of the invention is to provide constitute bearings for a rod 8 which is sea wheeled receptacle, manually moved over cured in place by nuts 9 screwed onto the the street or other surface, and causing a roendsthereof. This rod 8 provides rotary 10 tary brush to revolve to thoroughly clean mounting for the brush 6 and the latter is the street or other surface and carry the preferably made with ay hollow cylindrical articles or particles collected into the recore 9 having perforated disk-like ends l0 ceptacle without raising any appreciable receiving` the rod S and turning freely thereamount of dust, and collecting the dirt and on. The sides of the body l are recessed, 70 trash, which can be dumped or emptied as shown at ll, to accommodate the cylinfrom time to time, as may be desired. drical core 9,. as clearly shown in Figures Our invention is designed primarily as a l and 2, the upper end of the recess being labor saving device, which only needs to be semicircular rolled over the surface to be cleaned, and Thebraclrets include upper plate portions 2O its brush will automatically revolve so as which are permanently secured on the outer to thoroughly clean the surface and collect surface of the sides of receptacle at the top the dirt within the receptacle or receptacles o-f the recess ll, outwardly offset hanger forming a portion of the apparatus. arms having perfor-ations at their lower ends.

With an apparatus or device of this charthrough which rod 8 is passed, and inwardly F0 acter much fewer men will be needed to extending curved flan-ges, the shape and clean: the streets or any given surface, the curvature of these flanges coinciding with manual labor will be reduced, a greater those ofthe recesses il, so that these flanges efficiency had, and the nuisancey and danger tit snugly within thesel side recesses and due to the flying dust will be overcome. form a protector and reinforce for the edges With these and other objects in view, the of the side openings, as well as a housing Y invention consist-s in certain novel features or hood for the outer ends of the cylindrical of yconstruction and combinations and arcore 9, with which it is also concentric. rangements ofparts, which will be more By this construction and arrangement, of fully hereinafter described and pointed out parts the brush is held snugly and accurately 90 Cil in the claims. in place, the edges of the side openings are In the accompanying drawingprotected and strengthened and there is Figure l is a view in side elevation illuspractically no space left at the sides between trating my improved street cleaner; the brush and the receptacle` as the project- Figure 2 is a view in longitudinal secing ends of the core 9 fit into the flange. 95

tion through the center of the device; Also by the above arrangement the brushes Figure 8 is a top plan View; may be quickly removed by simply remov- Figure l is a framentary view in cross ing the rod 8 from the core 9, whereupon section on the line 1 -4 of Figure 2; and the brush will drop freely out of the side Figure 5 is a fragmentary view in cross recesses. The brush may be as readily re- 100 section on the line 5-5 of Figure 2. placed by reversing these operations.

l represents the body or receptacle of our The bristles of the brush 6 are preferably improved sanitary street cleaner, which is of arranged in groups and spaced apart and box-like form and which is made preferlocated with the desired relationship to each ably of'. metal, although of course the inother so as to effectually operate to clean 105 vention is not limited to the materials emthe surface and take up the dirt and trash. ployed. The bristles of the brush are to be made In the receptacle l and secured to the botof such material that they will be relatively tom thereof are bearing brackets 2 through rigid although they will have the neceswhich axles 3 project and are supported in sary resiliency to allow the desired bend- 110 wheels 4 mounted to run on the ground. ing action as they function in their cleaning These wheels 4t have rubber or other analooperation.

rl`he bottoni 12 of the body or receptacle 1 is open at its intermediate portion to accommodate the brush 6, and adjacent said brush arcuate guard plates 13 and 14; are secured to the bottom. One of these arcuate plates has a downwardly projecting shovellilre lip 15 over which the dirt and particles are directed by the brush until they reach the upper portion of the body 1, when they fall into the body onto the bottom and are deposited thereon.

It is of course necessary to provide means for allowing the accumulation of dirt and trash to be discharged or removed from the receptacle, and with this idea in view we provide doors 16 at the ends of the body which are hingedly connected as shown at 19, and have suitable catches 2O to hold them in closed position. When these doors are swung to open position it is obvious the accumulation in the body canbe removed. f

Vhile we have illustrated the doors at one particular point of the bot y, it is obvious that they may be located at any desired place in accordance with the desire of the trade.

Handle bars 21 are secured to the body, are strengthened by brace rod 22, and have a handheld 23 at their free ends to allow the operator to grasp the same and move the device over the ground or the surface.

In order that rotary motion may be transmitted to the brush, it will be noted that the tires 5 of the wheels 4 directly engage the end portions of the cylindrical core 9 of brush 6. Hence, when the device is moved over the ground the turning movement of the wheels will impart a positive rotary motion to the brush so? as to cause the latter to sweep the ground with such force and cleaning action as to thoroughly clean the surface and pick up the dirt and other particles or articles and deposit them in the receptacle.

An apparatus of this kind will dispense with a large number of men, such as are now necessary to clean the streets, will make the work much easier for those employed, will most efliciently perform the functions for which it is intended, and will in a very real sense constitute a sanitary manner of cleaning as the dust will not fiy and disease germs will not be scattered as they are under present conditions.

lWhile., as above stated, the device is especially adapted for use as a street cleaner it is capable of many eiiicient uses. It is well adapted for removing leaves in the fall, for cleaning; up walks and driveways, and hence we desire to cover the apparatus for any use to which it can be put.

Various slight changes and alterations might bemade in the general form ofthe parts described without departing from our invention, and hence we do not limit ourselves to the precise details set forth but consider ourselves at liberty to make' such slight changes and alterations as fairly fall within the spirit and scope of the appended claim.

le claim: l

A street cleaner comprising a body having alined recesses in its opposite sides eX- tending upwardly from the lower edges of tie sides and having curved upper ends, brackets on said sides adjacent the recesses having perforated arms extending over the recesses, and inwardly extending protectin flanges curved toV fit the upper ends of said recesses, said body having a transverse opening through its bottoni, a removable rod extending through said perforated arms, a brush rotatably mounted on said rod and extending through said opening, and means to rotate said brush.

ELSA BOYANCE. MARIE PEKRY. 

